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Question 113

Which pope called for the expedition known as the First Crusade, and when?

  1. Pope Urban II, at the end of the eleventh centuryCorrect answer
  2. Pope Innocent III, at the end of the eleventh century
  3. Pope Urban II, in the middle of the thirteenth century
  4. Pope Innocent III, in the twelfth century

Explanation

The appeal that set the first expedition in motion came from Urban II and belongs to the closing years of the eleventh century, when fighting men across the Latin west were called to march east. Naming Innocent III fails because that pope belongs to a much later generation and is associated with a subsequent expedition rather than with the first.

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